{"id":162636,"date":"2025-06-06T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162636\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:55:09","slug":"co-founder-of-swedish-internet-security-company-named-ey-world-entrepreneur-of-the-year-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162636\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-founder of Swedish internet security company named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stina Ehrensv\u00e4rd, co-founder of Swedish internet security company Yubico, has been named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 at an award ceremony in Monaco\u2019s Salle des Etoiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Ms Ehrensv\u00e4rd was selected from almost 5,000 participants that included 52 winners across 43 countries and jurisdictions competing for the global title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">She is the fourth woman to hold the title and first winner from Sweden in the award\u2019s 25-year history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">EY Ireland Entrepreneurs of the Year 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2024\/11\/28\/shorla-oncology-co-founders-win-ey-entrepreneurs-of-the-year-award\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2024\/11\/28\/shorla-oncology-co-founders-win-ey-entrepreneurs-of-the-year-award\/\">Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan<\/a> of Shorla Oncology represented Ireland at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">EY said Ms Ehrensv\u00e4rd built an \u201cindustry-leading and highly profitable company that has set new standards for internet security\u201d. She further created \u201cexponential growth for her company and a lasting impact on Sweden and its people\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Yubico was cofounded by Ms Ehrensv\u00e4rd in 2007. Within a year, the company had launched its first physical security key for multi-factor authentication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Over the following five years, it secured work with three of the biggest technology companies in Silicon Valley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Since then, Ms Ehrensv\u00e4rd has scaled Yubico to where it now protects 19 of the world\u2019s 20 largest internet companies. Its compound annual growth rate has been 40 per cent since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">EY chief executive Janet Truncale said Ms Ehrensv\u00e4rd\u2019s \u201cdefining philosophy that a secure digital identity is a basic human right is exactly the type of purpose-driven leadership we look to celebrate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Ms Ehrensv\u00e4rd said she was \u201ccommitted to saving the internet for democracy, for free speech, for education, for all the beautiful things we can do with it\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">\u201cThis recognition isn\u2019t the finish line,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s fuel. We are building a safer digital world, and I won\u2019t stop until that mission is fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">The winner was chosen by an independent panel of judges against four criteria: entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stina Ehrensv\u00e4rd, co-founder of Swedish internet security company Yubico, has been named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[68437,68438,3082,68439,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-162636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ey","9":"tag-ey-entrepreneur-of-the-year","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-shorla-oncology","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114635821850787594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}